Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a demand of government charwomen for a pay increase of threepence, three farthings (6.2?) an hour. He offered them one farthing (four-tenths of 1?) instead. One, angrier than the rest, sat down, composed a Christmas card, read it to a meeting of 1,000 sister chars. The greeting...
...five minutes after five, Vag pulled open his desk drawer and stared down at his study card. It was still there. A certain annoyed feeling gripped him, becoming stronger after he pushed the card aside and found a note underneath: "Study card due Tuesday." The calendar over his desk said the same thing. Gambling on a last chance, Vag, dashed out to the next room and unearthed the latest paper from the pile on the couch. Tuesday it was, and his study card wasn...
Once outside, Vag scratched the Dean's name off his Christmas List. He couldn't make his big Gift as an alumnus, but if he kept forgetting to hand in study cards on time . . . Vag wrote "Merry Christmas" across the top of his card; to it he pinned a check. "Pay to the order of the Vagabond Fund for Forgetful Students," it said, "Ten Dollars...
Preliminary Spring Term Study Cards are due before 5 p.m. today at 2 University Hall from all students except February Degree Candidates. Failure to hand in this card on time will subject students to a charge of $10 through the first week after it is due; $20 subsequent to that time. Failure to hand in this card on time may also result in disciplinary action...
...firm replied, saying: "We feel we have a good answer to the last question at least: the ferret is a grandfather, and must be presumed to have had some experience." The firm filled out the union card, returned it, and Freddie was solemnly accepted by the union as a member. Freddie's job has also been insured against any neuropsychological complications: to prevent frustration, he is given a rabbit at the end of each day's work...